“But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of them in a sentence as possible.” Anne McCaffrey

“My first thought when I came here was that I understood why there are so many great Irish writers – because there is something mystical in the air. There’s always this cloudy, moody sky and it’s challenging.” Christopher Meloni

“I’m Irish. I think about death all the time.” Jack Nicholson

“Rain is also very difficult to film, particularly in Ireland because it’s quite fine, so fine that the Irish don’t even acknowledge that it exists.” Alan Parker

“Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.” Fiona Shaw

“If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.” Oscar Wilde

“Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.” William Butler Yeats